Page 5: Historical Events In May - 24

1895  On this day in history playright Oscar Wilde is convicted on a morals charge in London and sentenced to prison   

1895  On this day in history henry Irving becomes 1st theatrical knight   

1895  On this day in history h S T L "Stork" Hendry, cricketer (Australian all-rounder post-WWI)   

1895  Joseph Quinaux, Belgian painter, dies at 73 on May - 24.   

1898  On May - 24 kathleen Hale, British children book writer/illustrator (Orlando)   

1899  On May - 24 the first auto repair shop opens in Boston   

1899  1st auto repair shop opens (Boston) on this day in history.   

1899  Suzanne Lenglen, France, Wimbledon tennis champion (6-times) on May - 24.   

1900  On May - 24 australians cross Vaal River in South Africa   

1900  Britain annexes Orange Free State on May - 24.   

1900  On this day in history 34th Belmont: Nash Turner aboard Ildrim wins in 2:21¼   

1901  Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales on May - 24.   

1902  Empire Day first celebrated in Britain on May - 24.   

1902  Empire Day 1st celebrated in Britain on May - 24.   

1903  Aram Katchaturian, Armenian composer, (Earth) on this day in history.   

1904  George Formby, [William Booth], Brit singer/comic (Let George Do It) on this day in history.   

1905  39th Belmont: Eugene Hildebrand aboard Tanya wins in 2:08 on May - 24.   

1905  Mikhail Sholokhov, USSR, writer (And Quiet Flows the Don, Nobel 1965) on this day in history.   

1906  On this day in history edmund Sargant, solicitor   

1908  On this day in history belgium Catholic socialist/liberal parliamentary election   

1908  On this day in history kresimir Fribec, composer   

1909  On May - 24 bristol University granted Royal Charter   

1909  Guillermo Diaz-Plaja, Spanish literary/poet (Lorca) on May - 24.   

1910  Margers Zarins, composer on May - 24.   

1912  On this day in history joan Hammond, British operatic soprano   

1913  Audrey Brown, England, 4 X 100m runner (Olympic-silver-1936) on this day in history.   

1914  On May - 24 clifford Irving, Chairman (Isle of Man Govt)   

1915  Enemy Contracts Annulment Act on May - 24.   

1915  On this day in history formal truce on Gallipoli during which the Turkish dead of the 19 May attacks are buried   

1915  Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary on May - 24.   

1915  Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations on May - 24.   

1916  On this day in history conscription begins in Britain   

1916  French driven out of Fort Douaumont after 500 killed or injured on this day in history.   

1916  On this day in history last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname   

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1522  On May - 24 birth of john Jewel, English bishop (d. 1571)   

1544  On May - 24 birth of william Gilbert, Essex England, physicist (researcher into magnetism)   

1605  Nikon, [Nikita Minin], patriarch of Russian-orthodox church was born on this day in history.   

1610  Giovanni Battista Chinelli, composer was born on this day in history.   

1616  On May - 24 birth of john Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale (d. 1682)   

1619  Philips Wouwerman(s), Dutch painter was born on May - 24.   

1650  On this day in history birth of john Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, English general strategist   

1671  On this day in history birth of gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1737)   

1144  Petronella, wife of earl Floris II the Vette of Holland/regent, dies on this day in history.   

1153  On this day in history david I, King of Scotland, dies   

1351  On May - 24 death of abu al-Hasan 'Ali, Sultan of Morocco (b. circa 1297)   

1408  Death of Taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1335) on this day in history.   

1425  Death of Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, Scottish politician (b. 1362) on May - 24.   

1456  On this day in history death of ambroise de Loré, French military commander (b. 1396)   

1543  Nicolas Copernicus, astronomer, dies in Poland on this day in history.   

1612  Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury/PM (1598-1612), dies at 48 on May - 24.